@mikedugdale.bsky.social
Pyrénées dweller; brexiled, guest house operator and occasional cyclist. Hates building hot tubs but it's too late to stop now.
www.pyreneescyclingcentre.co.uk
www.pyreneescyclingcentre.co.uk
Pinned
Any eBike repair people on here?
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I just switched from Spotify to Tidal as a half-baked ethical gesture and maybe this is some sort of aural placebo effect but the difference in sound quality is startling, as though Spotify plays everything through a sock. Or am I just imagining this
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I just switched from Spotify to Tidal as a half-baked ethical gesture and maybe this is some sort of aural placebo effect but the difference in sound quality is startling, as though Spotify plays everything through a sock. Or am I just imagining this
Me too
I like immigrants.
I like their food.
I like their work ethic.
I like it they are different from me.
I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
I like their food.
I like their work ethic.
I like it they are different from me.
I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Me too
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This Will Fuck Their Heads Right Up…..
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This Will Fuck Their Heads Right Up…..
No-one talking about who killed Epstein yet?
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No-one talking about who killed Epstein yet?
Superb nerd toy and all round useful gizmo for the rest of us. (Not me actually but hey)
I proudly present the internet's nerdiest and prettiest tax calculator.
Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.
Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Superb nerd toy and all round useful gizmo for the rest of us. (Not me actually but hey)
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Avoid #VOI ebikes in London. 1st time and last time on a voi bike. Very patchy coverage, gps tracker constanly cutting the motor off when cycling on a boundary. Cluncky automatic gearing.
Parking zones yes, but riding zones? Fix or will disappear soon.
Never again.
Parking zones yes, but riding zones? Fix or will disappear soon.
Never again.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Avoid #VOI ebikes in London. 1st time and last time on a voi bike. Very patchy coverage, gps tracker constanly cutting the motor off when cycling on a boundary. Cluncky automatic gearing.
Parking zones yes, but riding zones? Fix or will disappear soon.
Never again.
Parking zones yes, but riding zones? Fix or will disappear soon.
Never again.
What's the point of Lisa Nandy?
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
What's the point of Lisa Nandy?
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if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
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Gary Lineker for DG
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Gary Lineker for DG
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This week Nigel Farage said 'Never trust a Tory'
Just for the record:
Nigel Farage was a Tory
Lee Anderson was a Tory
Nadine Dorris was a Tory
Danny Kruger was a Tory
Zia Yussef was a Tory
Andrea Jenkins was a Tory
Sarah Atherton was a Tory
Jake Berry was a Tory
Ann Widdecombe was a Tory
Just for the record:
Nigel Farage was a Tory
Lee Anderson was a Tory
Nadine Dorris was a Tory
Danny Kruger was a Tory
Zia Yussef was a Tory
Andrea Jenkins was a Tory
Sarah Atherton was a Tory
Jake Berry was a Tory
Ann Widdecombe was a Tory
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This week Nigel Farage said 'Never trust a Tory'
Just for the record:
Nigel Farage was a Tory
Lee Anderson was a Tory
Nadine Dorris was a Tory
Danny Kruger was a Tory
Zia Yussef was a Tory
Andrea Jenkins was a Tory
Sarah Atherton was a Tory
Jake Berry was a Tory
Ann Widdecombe was a Tory
Just for the record:
Nigel Farage was a Tory
Lee Anderson was a Tory
Nadine Dorris was a Tory
Danny Kruger was a Tory
Zia Yussef was a Tory
Andrea Jenkins was a Tory
Sarah Atherton was a Tory
Jake Berry was a Tory
Ann Widdecombe was a Tory
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
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Lizzi, as ever, is correct. This was just Parliamentary theatre from Farage. We shouldn’t give him what he wants by pretending it was at all serious.
10 Minute Rule Bills are a good way of drawing attention to an issue that wouldn’t otherwise be debated but they’ve zero chance of ever becoming law.
10 Minute Rule Bills are a good way of drawing attention to an issue that wouldn’t otherwise be debated but they’ve zero chance of ever becoming law.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Lizzi, as ever, is correct. This was just Parliamentary theatre from Farage. We shouldn’t give him what he wants by pretending it was at all serious.
10 Minute Rule Bills are a good way of drawing attention to an issue that wouldn’t otherwise be debated but they’ve zero chance of ever becoming law.
10 Minute Rule Bills are a good way of drawing attention to an issue that wouldn’t otherwise be debated but they’ve zero chance of ever becoming law.
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We don't vote on ten minute rule bills. It's not subject specific.
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We don't vote on ten minute rule bills. It's not subject specific.
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Here's my report with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social on how and why the failing Home Office should be broken up: carladenyer.co.uk/no-way-home/
No Way Home: It is time to remove management of immigration from the Home Office - Carla Denyer
Carla Denyer: Your Bristol West Green Party MP Candidate. Tackling the Climate Emergency - An End to the Housing Crisis - A Fairer and More Equal City
carladenyer.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Here's my report with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social on how and why the failing Home Office should be broken up: carladenyer.co.uk/no-way-home/
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If you left this bracelet on the victoria line tonight, email me with a description of the other end of the clasp and will reunite you both.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If you left this bracelet on the victoria line tonight, email me with a description of the other end of the clasp and will reunite you both.
When a newspaper is caught lying
@thetimes.com and
@telegraphnews.bsky.social and @dailymail.co.uk there need to be far harsher punishments.
@thetimes.com and
@telegraphnews.bsky.social and @dailymail.co.uk there need to be far harsher punishments.
Is this enough though?
They should print retractions & apologies and ties should be as prominent as the original false statements
They should print retractions & apologies and ties should be as prominent as the original false statements
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
When a newspaper is caught lying
@thetimes.com and
@telegraphnews.bsky.social and @dailymail.co.uk there need to be far harsher punishments.
@thetimes.com and
@telegraphnews.bsky.social and @dailymail.co.uk there need to be far harsher punishments.
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statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP
Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent
It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP
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Very eloquent from Wes Streeting. This isn't a memorised speech - it's from the heart.
Well said, Wes! 👏 👏 👏
Not a peep from the Putin Puppet Farage today over his MP’s divisive and racist rhetoric. Not fit to govern.
Not a peep from the Putin Puppet Farage today over his MP’s divisive and racist rhetoric. Not fit to govern.
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Very eloquent from Wes Streeting. This isn't a memorised speech - it's from the heart.
Is there a new startup list going around to which I've been mis-added?
It's not often I wake up to 40-odd new followers.
I hope I don't disappoint.
It's not often I wake up to 40-odd new followers.
I hope I don't disappoint.
October 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Is there a new startup list going around to which I've been mis-added?
It's not often I wake up to 40-odd new followers.
I hope I don't disappoint.
It's not often I wake up to 40-odd new followers.
I hope I don't disappoint.
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Puttanesca galette with a lemon ricotta filling: the Nerve weekend dish, by chef and Ottolenghi collaborator Helen Goh
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Puttanesca galette with a lemon ricotta filling: the Nerve weekend dish, by chef and Ottolenghi collaborator Helen Goh
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
The Tory plan to copy Idi Amin, the cannibal, and deport millions of legally resident people, nurses, doctors, teachers, mums, engineers etc., was hatched in May and no-one noticed until October.
Boy, they are so fucked.
Boy, they are so fucked.
Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The Tory plan to copy Idi Amin, the cannibal, and deport millions of legally resident people, nurses, doctors, teachers, mums, engineers etc., was hatched in May and no-one noticed until October.
Boy, they are so fucked.
Boy, they are so fucked.
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Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post
Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In a blow to Rachel Reeves, the super rich declare that despite this type of wealth tax raising more revenue than expected, a direct wealth tax definitely wouldn't work.
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In a blow to Rachel Reeves, the super rich declare that despite this type of wealth tax raising more revenue than expected, a direct wealth tax definitely wouldn't work.